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    Karen Walker

    Writes short. Is short. Has tall dogs. Pushcart and Best Microfiction nominated.
    Canada

    Chapbooks

    Selected work (76 publications)

    Centaur, 2024
    Eleven years after I left, brunch
    experimental
    EGG+FROG, 2025
    1210 days in eight minutes, with playlist
    experimental
    Misery Tourism, 2024
    OHC's iconic chestnut trees poisoned; local merchant on trial
    flash
    Thin Skin, 2024
    A Future Writer's Guide to Surviving the Woodstove
    flash
    The Gorko Gazette, 2024
    Then, snap. Strangle. Gush. Blackness. Silent Night.
    micro-fiction
    horror
    Christmas
    Neither Fish Nor Foul, 2024
    Royal MeatCollaboration with the fab Philippa Bowe.
    Does It Have Pockets, 2024
    The meaning of words unknown to Doug
    micro-fiction
    EGG+FROG, 2024
    1210 days in eight minutes, with playlist
    hybrid
    Thin Skin, 2024
    A Future Writer's Guide to Surviving the Woodstove
    prose poem
    Lenticular, 2024
    Milk mono no aware
    flash
    Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction, 2024
    A ragged man, a Chihuahua, and a woman with a lavender latte
    micro-fiction
    Exist Otherwise, 2024
    Divisible
    prose poetry
    Weird Lit Magazine, 2024
    Abstract
    flash
    Silly Goose Press, 2024
    The Gods took Tade. Where is Spring?
    flash
    A Thin Slice of Anxiety, 2024
    Optimist Park
    micro-fiction
    Misery Tourism, 2024
    OHC's iconic chestnut trees poisoned; local merchant on trial
    flash
    Roi Fainéant Press, 2024
    For someone better at small talk
    Flash fiction
    Subliminal Surgery, 2024
    The chickens freeze in mid peck, and Jeff screams, Jesus is coming! scroll waaay down
    micro-fiction
    2024
    The Ancestress
    fantasy
    Call Me, 2024
    I began with jelly beanspg 74
    Flash fiction
    Weird Lit Magazine, 2024
    Abstract
    experimental
    Flash fiction
    2024
    Stacey, hurtling through Wisconsin
    Neuro Logical Magazine, 2024
    Deus ex Machina
    Bending Genres, 2024
    At the university graduation, a family looks unhappy
    2024
    One morning, old Pepper has four again
    The Ekphrastic Review, 2024
    Wilson's Corners Is Still Buzzing About Herfor the Noah Jayne Andrews Challenge
    The Viridian Door, 2024
    CPPL 933 becomes GBBL 983
    Mister Bull, 2024
    Toronto Snow Plow Driver ArrestedOriginally published in Curio Cabinet
    Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, 2024
    Nuts of the World
    Centaur, 2024
    Eleven years after I left, brunch
    Witcraft, 2024
    Dried Hunter Sausage
    humour
    Roi Fainéant Press, 2023
    The happiest Junior Support Desk associate ever
    the voidspace, 2023
    I will not be blue
    coalitionworks, 2023
    Father believes in famine roadsHistorical fiction
    Overheard, 2023
    A small coconut cake wishes Bon Voyag
    The Hooghly Review (Issue 2 & Weekly Features), 2023
    Ricky's Funeral is ThursdayHermit crab flash
    the voidspace, 2023
    Who Am I?Interactive poem
    Brink Literary Journal, 2023
    A Survey of Late Roman Ware in Wadi El Khahab or Beer and Scorpions
    Flash Creative Nonfiction
    Malarkey Books, 2023
    Ballet slippers like Jody Hindman's
    Your Impossible Voice, 2023
    Pies with Secrets
    Bloom, 2023
    This in a black trash bag
    JAKE, 2023
    Pigeon wearing meth-filled backpack busted at B.C. prison
    Flash Boulevard, 2023
    One Hater and Two Lovers of Winter
    National Flash Fiction Day--FlashFlood , 2023
    Feel & IThank you SmokeLong Fitness for the feedback.
    Ellipsis Zine, 2023
    One Penny Sit-Up, Two Penny Hang
    The Gorko Gazette American Cheese Special , 2023
    Yum, a cute CanadianLove in a pot of mac & cheese
    Bright Literary Flash, 2023
    Granddogs
    Bulb Culture Collective, 2023
    The Feast of Fabian According to Theobald The PiousBased on excerpts from The Aberdeen Bestiary and a Medieval recipe for roast goose.
    L' Esprit Literary Review, 2023
    Skating
    boats against the current, 2023
    Writing cranks a grinder and feeds a movementAn ekphrastic N + 7 poem. Art inspiration: Celestial Pablum, by Remedios Varo (1958)
    Roi Fainéant Literary Press, 2023
    Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda, Dagmar, Maud, and grandchildren circa 1901Art inspiration: Sunday Walk in Tyrol, by Jean Fautrier (1922)
    Culinary Origami, 2023
    The Reuben
    Pigeon Review, 2023
    Sammy
    Skirting Around Magazine , 2023
    A skirt makes a better daughter
    Bureau of Complaint, 2023
    Word ArtThree pieces: "Grandmama Hates Tomato Bums", "My First and Last Day as 'Lobby Leader'", and "Don't Lie to Me, Christmas!"
    word art
    A Thin Slice of Anxiety, 2023
    Dear Worm
    Janus Literary, 2023
    He Her Tollund Man, She Jutland Girl
    Moon Cola Zine, 2023
    The hen butts out her cig and says, "All over now."
    Atlantic Northeast Magazine, 2023
    Lost at William St. & University Ave. W.
    JAKE, 2023
    "Every little boy needs a dog," barks your mother
    miniskirt magazine, 2022
    Roasted eggplant, shiitake mushrooms, and ricotta
    Emerge Literary Journal , 2022
    Too, Only, OnlyWinner of Emerge Literary Journal's Boxed Words Comp.
    SugarSugarSalt, 2022
    PhilThank you SugarSugarSalt for reprinting this piece.
    Bullshit Lit, 2022
    I QuitAn experimental n+7 poem
    Scapegoat Review, 2022
    Money Plant
    Provenance Journal Issue 3--Absurd, 2022
    Claudine and Simon and the Nun
    National Flash Fiction Day NZ, 2022
    Sybil's SignalsShort-listed in the Micro Madness Competition.
    Roi Fainéant Literary Press, 2022
    My brother is my dog
    Funny Pearls
    A Little Black Dress Speaks
    Unstamatic
    Water Garden in the Hamptons
    Sledgehammer Lit
    He Has a Pumpkin on His Head
    Five Minute Lit
    Phil
    grief
    Potato Soup Journal
    Our Curious Custom
    Roi Fainéant Literary Press.
    The Key to Erica's Lemon and Fig Cupcakes
    Sundial Magazine
    Louise is colour
    FlashBack Fiction
    The 1796 Spinning Wheel List